Funimation Productions and 4Kids Entertainment are planning a June fifteenth launch of the first series of 'DVD Singles .'

Major changes are ahead for the Cartoon Network, chief among them the replacement of the weekday Toonami Block by the new Miguzi Block.

Upper Deck is planning a new CCG aimed at girls ( Winx Club ), a number of licensed releases for its BreaKey game, and several key trading card releases.

New York City. The 101st Annual American International Toy Fair opened here on Sunday in the wake of a tough holiday season for the industry.

Funimation Productions will handle the sales and distribution of video products from the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cartoon series.

4Kids Entertainment has announced that it will make the Shaman King anime series part of its Fox Block of Saturday morning kids' programming in the fall of 2003. 4Kids plans to produce 26 episodes of the series, which has reached 64 episodes in Japan. If Shaman King's first season on the Fox Box is a success, then it is highly likely that 4Kids will adapt more episodes of the anime series

The May 1993 issue of IC was particularly interesting, as it portrayed a comic business in bubble mode, a deal craze in comic companies, several articles that foreshadowed the impending comic crash, and anime and game sales that show similarities to the present.

The comic book that was originally launched in the 1980s as Zen Intergalactic Ninja , and is now known simply as Zen , returns to the world of comics as a monthly color book debuting with issue #0 in April.

Fox has renewed two of its long-running animated series.

Peter David has announced that he will be writing a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book series for Dreamwave Productions.